Right now we should decide on a place to meet should the internet suddently become as extinct as the American Chestnut

[kelber at mindspring.com]

May 8, 2020, NYC, in the first car of the Times Square shuttle train. As it yo-yos back and forth, of necessity we'll have to run through the train to stay in the front car, ostentatiously clutching our favorite Pynchon books so we can recognize one another. See you then!

Laura 

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Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:

>Some 'dark force' out there is turning our 'smart appliances' against online communications and it ain't going to end anytime soon
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>https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/21/mirai-botnet-hacked-cameras-routers-internet-outage/
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>The biggest safety concern about driverless cars is that they will be so easily maliciously hacked. and become instruments of violence in quite neighborhoods, commandered by person's unknown
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>-Allan in WV where we only have one taxicab for 3 counties (and probably no cabs for all the rest of the counties) of course, in this county, I'm sure we will have our share of cooperative smart fridges
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